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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> > Oyez, oyez! Please read the new Multi-Part DAT (MPD) Language
> > Extension specification at <http://www.ldraw.org/reference/specs/mpd>.
> > All comments, suggestions, and criticisms are welcome.
>
> One addition that might be useful for people using the spec is to explicitly
> state that other than the first file being the main one, there is no
> implicit order to the remaining files. This is implied by the existing
> spec, but not actually stated. Specifically, one file near the top of an
> MPD may reference another file near the bottom. So an MPD parser must first
> scan the entire MPD file for subfiles before trying to parse the individual
> subfiles.
>
> Obviously it has to do this anyway in order to parse the main file in the
> MPD, since that one is guaranteed to show up first, and it presumably
> references other files in the MPD. However, it's not necessarily obvious
> that the other files are also in arbitrary order.
Good point. Should probably also add the following...
- There shouldn't be multiple files with the same name.
- paths are allowed, so are explicit drive references. But the capability
should be use with restraint, since it can easily make it harder to share files.
Steve
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| (...) MPD Workshop cannot handle a reference to a non-existing directory, or rather, it does not create a folder if necessary. For example: (URL) line: 0 FILE s\41342s01.dat assumes that there already exists the folder 's\' in the target directory, (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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